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(noun) -- A feeling that the software will lead to a disastrous loss of privacy down the road.
"The more I think about all these apps going around, the more I am filled with app-rehension."
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on January 15, 2013
A bumper sticker-like slogan imprinted on a t-shirt.
"Hey, did you see that thumper sticker on that guy's t-shirt?"
"Wow, the thumper sticker on that woman's t-shirt is cool!"
(adj.) - A business marketing plan that allows consumers to know what's behind the entire operation, with no secrets kept inside the proverbial kimono
"The new e-reader runs on an open kimono strategy, and sales are going through the roof."
-- overheard at a watercooler at Tokyo computer firm
(N.) -- When you buy a sandwich in a convenience store thinking that from the looks of the meat or fish or vegetable filling facing out to you on the shelf that it will be full of that filling all the way into the sandwich as well. But when you buy the sandwich and unwrap it, it's barely full of the filling at all, and in fact the outer edge is all you get; the inside of the sandwich was basically empty.
''I bought a tuna sandwich at 7-Eleven and there was only a small helping of actual tuna inside -- what a sandtease! It was a completely eye-catching piece of display sales fakery. I hate that!"
A small town in southern Taiwan, known as Putzu in Mandarin but written as Putz in English on several highway road signs.
Putz General Hospital is how the English language sign on a website spells it.
(n.) -- The exclamation one makes when a cockroach is successfully zapped by an electric zapper
''Look, I finally zapped him for good. Evicted!''
overheard in an office kitchenette in Taipei, November 15, 2010
To climb a mountain trail with vigor and determination
Joshua Quitter began a recent article in Time magazine about a Palm's Pre, profiling the man who created it, writing on June 15, 2009: "A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein
was booking up a mountain the side of Mount Tamalpais in......"